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Sometimes, the most innovative business ideas stem from your own experiences. That was the case for Adrianne Nickerson, who, while navigating her own maternity journey, saw a gap in the market when it came to maternity care. “I was talking to friends about what their experiences were like having kids,” she says. “At best, people described something that was impersonal and transactional, and at worst, something that felt really dangerous.” In 2019, Nickerson launched Oula with a founding team of women who were also navigating similar stages of maternity. The company, which ranks on LinkedIn’s 2024 Top Startups list, is redesigning pregnancy care for women through its modern maternity clinics — which combine obstetrics and midwifery care. Since its founding, Oula has raised over $50 million in funding, with clinics in Manhattan and Brooklyn and plans for expansion (https://lnkd.in/eAYWBSXb).  Weigh in below: What other emerging companies in the women’s health space are you excited about right now? Check out what other companies made LinkedIn’s 2024 Top Startups list: https://lnkd.in/USTopStartups2024.

💃🏽 Female Founder Spotlight: Adrianne Nickerson & Elaine Purcell of Oula ⬇️ Spotlighted by LinkedIn as a top US startup of 2024, Oula is a modern maternity centre delivering an evidence-based, personalised pregnancy experience. 🤰🏾 I angel invested $20,000 into Oula in 2021. They have since gone on to raise a total of *$50Million* of funding, including backing from Female Founders Fund, GV (Google Ventures), January Ventures, 8VC and Chelsea Clinton's Metrodora Ventures. 💸 Oula aim to revolutionise maternity care with a new approach to pregnancy care. Offering a hybrid of in-person clinic care & virtual care, they currently have offices in New York City. Their hybrid model covers the entire spectrum of maternity care from pre-conception counselling through a patient’s postpartum period. 🐣🇺🇸 Oula is part of a new wave of ventures that are built by women, for women. Women's health has traditionally been underserved by investors but with $50Million in the bank, Oula are leading the way in showing that things are changing. 💰 The female founding team has deep experience of working in healthcare and are bringing maternity care into the modern tech-enabled age. 🏥 🏥 Find out more in the comments about how Oula is setting a new standard in maternity care ⬇ -- ♻ Re-share if this resonated with you. 👩🏽⚕️ Follow Dr Fiona Pathiraja-Møller for more. #femtech #healthcare #femaleinvestor #famtech #maternity

#Funding #KnowHow Super moms: How to close a $10 million funding round while pregnant: Securing funding for a startup is challenging for any founder. For female entrepreneurs, the hurdles are often higher, requiring them to work harder to prove their commitment and capabilities. Add pregnancy into the equation, and the stakes can feel impossibly high. Society often portrays it as a career setback, a barrier to success—but does it […] The post Super moms: How to close a $10 million funding round while pregnant appeared first on EU-Startups.

🚀Zing CEO Tanya Parfenyuk: A Story of Resilience in Fundraising In a recent article for EU-Startups, Zing Coach (ZNG) CEO Tanya Parfenyuk 🇺🇦shares her experience of raising €10 million in Series A funding while pregnant. “Pregnancy brings unique challenges, but with the right mindset, preparation, and support, it doesn’t have to derail your entrepreneurial journey,” Tanya writes. Her story reveals a powerful truth: entrepreneurship is filled with obstacles, but being pregnant doesn’t change who you are as a leader. Instead, pregnancy can become a unique opportunity to demonstrate resilience, determination, and unwavering commitment to your business. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/dvxCWJMC

What do you think: Can pregnancy actually enhance a woman's leadership skills and entrepreneurial potential? Did you know that female founders are challenging traditional workplace stereotypes by proving that pregnancy isn't a career setback, but a powerful demonstration of leadership? A groundbreaking story reveals how one entrepreneur secured a €10 million funding round while pregnant, exposing the outdated notion that maternal status somehow diminishes professional capability. In fact, recent research shows that female-founded startups received just 2.3% of global venture capital in 2022—making these stories of resilience even more remarkable. Read the full article for free: https://lnkd.in/enfK69W6

💰 Motherhood Care+, a femtech based in Malaysia, has successfully completed a seed funding round led by Care Ventures Group, a fund specializing in healthcare, wellness, medical, and AI technologies. 💬 "We are thrilled to partner with Care Ventures Group, whose investment underscores our mission to transform the maternity care and wellness landscape. With this funding, we plan to expand our platform and enhance our technology to streamline operations and optimize user experience. In the next six months, we aim to feature at least 750 confinement center rooms and 1,300 confinement nannies in the Care+ Members App, enabling us to better serve mothers across Malaysia and Singapore.” sy goh, Co-founder of Motherhood Care+ #femtech #womenshealth #womenshealthinnovation #health #healthcare #healthcareinnovation #femhealth #pregnancy #motherhood #maternity #postpartum #birth #virtualcare #digitalhealth #startup #malaysia

What grabs me most about Cara Health? Their stellar founding team. Their blend of medical, marketing, product, and technical expertise enables a hybrid digital/physical maternity care model validated by real insights. This talented, gritty trio can centralize fragmented solutions. With passion and vision, I believe they will thrive in femtech and make Cara Health a category leader. Impressed. The femtech market has massive potential with expected 11-15% annual growth. However, current maternity care solutions are fragmented, creating huge gaps in support for expecting mothers. 

Section 1 Jananee To Empower Parenthood: Extend the Gift of Life Amidst celebrations, everyone has the chance to empower parenthood. Offer the gift of motherhood to low-income couples yearning for children but facing barriers to natural conception. We facilitate affordable IVF programs for rural couples unable to afford conventional treatments. Our comprehensive cycles, ranging from 50-75k, cover all aspects: stimulation injections, scans, Andrology, OPU, ICSI, embryo culture to blastocysts, and vitrification. In some cases, we offer free or discounted services, driven by our belief that financial constraints shouldn't obstruct the path to parenthood. Our ethos is simple: affordability should never obstruct the journey to parenthood. We operate on a non-profit basis, occasionally even at a loss, but the impact on those previously unable to access treatment is profound. With a platform to amplify our cause, we can alleviate the silent suffering of countless couples and highlight our team's dedication to humanity. *Jananee,* a part of SHRC at Kanerimath, a place of genuine service to all living beings, spearheads this initiative. From IVF centers for cattle to innovative concepts benefiting farmers, dogs, and even village adoptions for youth employment, our mission encompasses diverse realms of social welfare. *We invite you to join us in extending the gift of parenthood to those yearning to embrace it*

SPECIAL EVENT: Maternity Foundation 23/8🫄🏾💜 💡 Every other minute, a woman dies during pregnancy or birth. Every seventh second, a newborn suffers the same fate 💔 In Angella Invest one of our focus areas is to increase knowledge and investments in women's health. We do this because we want to make a difference❣️But we also do this because we know it is a massive growth area with good investment opportunties 🚀 Making money does not need to exclude doing good - on the contrary 🙌 Therefore we are very happy that Maternity Foundation has invited us to a special event where they will tell is about their extremely valuable work to ensure safer childbirths for women and newborns worldwide, and to a discussion about what we as investors can do to contribute: 🗓️ Friday 23/8 14-17 incl. network (and social dinner for those who want) 📍 Maternity Foundation, Copenhagen ❎ Sign up & agenda: 👉 https://lnkd.in/dmuHJJt7 The event is held in collaboration with GynZone: We Share Women's Care as well as our good partner Curo Capital, who are focused on impact investments as a B-corp certificeret Wealth Manager 🌎👏 The amazing CEO Anna Frellsen and Director of Global Development Franka Cadée will present the works of Maternity Foundation. Read more about Maternity Foundation here 👉www.maternity.dk which is supported by Patron Royal Highness Queen Mary of Denmark. There will good opportunity to network as both investors as well as women's health startups will participate. The event is for members-only or by personal invite. However, as we would like to support the work of Maternity Foundation, we have reserved a limited no. of guest tickets. If you would like to participate as a guest, please send an email to info@angellainvest.com 📧 ❗Please note, guest tickets are reserved for women's health / impact investors as this is not a pitch event❗✋ We are looking forward to an inspiring event and to hopefully make a difference 💜🫄🏾👨👩👧👦 Frederikke Andrea Kristensen Anne Borghegn Marie-Louise Bjerg Kathrine Dahl Stine Jersie Olsen Malene Bason Iben Marie Bason Maria Kragh-Jensen Sara Kindberg Adelskov Charlotte Nørgaard Langer Malene Enø Anna Færch Hansen Torsten Kolind Cathy Hertz Helle Degn Kristine Leerbeck

Mother-centered postpartum care is often perceived as a luxury rather than a critical support system that yields considerable advantages for the entire family unit – mom, dad and baby. Assumptions like "women have been doing this for generations," "childcare is easier than working a regular 9 to 5 job," and "women can have/do it all” stand in the way of getting new families the care they need. Listen to Wings of Inspired Business #podcast to learn how entrepreneur Julia Kim is closing a $1.1BN gap in postpartum care with retreat centers that support the whole family with comprehensive support and personalized care, plus how entrepreneurs solving social challenges can become more effective lobbyists for bipartisan legislation. >> Listen link: https://bit.ly/Wings891 Julia Kim is the CEO and Founder of Sanu Postpartum, inspired by her own challenges as a new mom six years ago and the South Korean tradition of ‘sam-chil-il’ retreats for new moms, dads and babies.  Julia says that despite thorough preparation, reading numerous books, visiting various specialists, and attending courses at multiple pediatrician offices, she found all that learning didn't match up with reality. So, she left her successful 15-year career in politics as a policymaker and communications expert on campaigns to jump into entrepreneurship. Hotel-based, Sanu Postpartum retreats help mothers recover from childbirth, get vital mental health support and more with a round-the-clock nursery, for an average 5 to 7 nights. Julia is now expanding her locations beyond her flagship in Tysons Corner, VA in the Washington DC suburbs. 🔑Key Takeaways🔑 👩🔬🤝Innovations in Postpartum Care: Why new parents need better postpartum guidance and how the challenges of new parenthood are being solved with Sanu retreat centers. 🚀 🤟 Personal Experience Sparks Entrepreneurial Innovation: Why opportunities always present when we solve challenges for ourselves. 💡🌱Politics and Entrepreneurship: From understanding customers, creating relevant messaging, and engaging them as your advocates, entrepreneurs can learn a lot from the secrets of political campaigning. ✨👩🔬Female Founders for Kamala: Why women entrepreneurs have much to gain (or lose) depending on the outcome of the US elections, with our rights, freedoms and opportunities on the ballot. Get a 10% discount at SanuPostpartum.com when you use 10PEROFF at checkout. Create and share clips of your favorite moments on this podcast and join the conversation on the AI-powered interactive podcast app #Podopolo. Download Podopolo, follow Wings of Inspired Business there, and invite your friends. #liftasweclimb #femalefounders #womenentrepreneurs #entrepreneurship #postpartum #newmoms #femalefounders4kamala #harriswalz2024